Mary Caroline (Carrie) Burpee Shaw (1850–1946)[1] was an American composer,[2] music educator,[3] and pianist.
Shaw was born in Rockland, Maine, to Mary Jane Partridge and Nathaniel Adams Burpee.
[5] Her brother was the marine impressionist painter William Partridge Burpee.
[8] Shaw studied piano and organ with Stephen Emery, Percy Goetschius, Hermann Kotschmann,[9] Frederic Lamond, Benjamin Johnson Lang, Effa Ellis Perfield, Thomas Tapper, and Antha Minerva Virgil.
[10] In 1900, she and Mrs. James Wright opened the Rockland Music School.